COVID was the turning point for Pamela Sztybel. The sometimes Connecticut-based, sometimes New York City-based artist found herself — like many, many people all over the world — in lockdown. She couldn’t get to her New York studio. And it would be a while before she could travel to her big, bright country studio in Bridgewater, where her large, colorful flower paintings hung on the walls and where she had miles of paints, brushes, chalks and all manner of art supplies.